HELP!
It's nice when the release valve works as it should and we've tried to design KFO so that you can rant at someone or something with as few mouse clicks as possible.
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Using the KFO website
- The basic concepts
- Who can be added to KFO?
- Profiles, reasons and comments
- It says that I've already voted when I haven't
- The SOS feature
- Can I set up automatic voting?
- What's that 'Search Cloud' thingy about?
- Remaining anonymous on KFO
- You choose to sign up as a member;
- and you are logged in;
- and your preferences are not set to anonymous;
- and you leave a comment or reason when placing a nomination, denomination or adding a new nominee
- What are the benefits of becoming a member?
- Reply to comments
- Upload nominee images
- Chat with other members in real-time
- Track individual nominees
- Unlock secret areas of KFO
- View a detailed history of your KFO activity
- Store up to 10 favourite nominees
- Set up and pay for banner advertising campaigns
- Enter the occasional competition
- I don't like seeing the 'F' word but I want to use KFO
- OMG! I'm on KFO - WTF do I do?
- Uploading images on KFO
- Copyright on KFO (profiles and comments etc.)
- You state there's a chat function - where is it?
- The website doesn't seem to work properly for me
Using the KFO website, everyone has the chance to tell others to 'Kindly Foxtrot Oscar'. The process of adding your vote is called a nomination. The person, organisation or thing you are telling to KFO are all known as nominees.
To find out if the person or thing you wish to KFO already exists in our database, you must always perform a search (or two). If, after a thorough search, you're sure they don't exist, you simply fill out the simple form and add them as a new nominee.
When you add a new nominee, the system also casts the initial vote, or nomination, and that's it - the victim is now immortalised on the world's most popular unpopularity chart and the rest of the world can add their tuppence.
Pretty much anyone or anything. From your local leering butcher with dirty fingernails to the president of a nation, or indeed, a nation itself.
When you vote on KFO, you have the opportunity of adding a brief reason or comment supporting your nomination (or simply put, why you're pissed off with them). Bad language may be permitted in this field but we reserve the right to edit any submissions prior to publishing them.
When adding a new nominee, you also have the chance of submitting a short but concise and neutral profile. This profile is picked up by the KFO search engine (and Google's) and can also be used to 'tag' your nominee with relevant keywords that will make it easier for others to find them.
All KFO profiles, images, reasons and comments are screened - by both humans and programmed filters - for bad language, potentially libelous remarks, spam and general relevance. Spam is destroyed upon sight and the associated IP address will be permanently banned from the website.
KFO restricts nominations based on IP address - a unique identifier present in all devices connected to the internet. Your current IP address appears to be 38.107.191.101. This means that any one computer can vote for any nominee once within any 24 hours. So if dad's already voted for Maggie Thatcher in the morning, it means that uncle Jim won't be able to when he's over for Sunday lunch.
There are ways around this, voting from multiple computers, or doing the rounds of all the internet cafes in town for example. We've designed it this way to try and keep things fair and to try and prevent 'flood' voting by silly individuals. We can at least try to be democratic.
The SOS (Save Our Souls) feature has been included to offer truly wronged individuals the opportunity of finding redemption. Casting an SOS can be seen as the opposite of casting a KFO. You're basically saying, "Oh, alright then, you're not that bad. We forgive you."
Those nominees that have reached redemption are portrayed as such on their KFO profile pages by the use of different colours and text.
As with KFOs, you only get one SOS per nominee per household/IP address.
Yes!
Well, you can for a single nominee. Our downloadable desktop Tracker widget allows you to set up repeat voting for a single nominee. You do have to leave the software running all the time, but it takes up next to no memory (less than 2kb). Simply tick the 'Auto KFO' or 'Auto SOS' checkbox and when 24 hours have elapsed, the widget will automatically add your KFO or SOS for the same nominee again.
The KFO Search Cloud is a Web 2.0 concept that allows you to view what people have been searching for on KFO. Basically, the bigger the word or phrase is, the more times that word or phrase has been searched for. Similar scripts, also known as 'tag clouds', can be seen on many social networking sites.
The KFO Search Cloud covers the last seven days and is throttled based on traffic and frequency.
Anonymity is easy on KFO because you don't need to do anything at all to achieve it.
You'll only ever be visible to other KFO viewers if:
All of the above conditions must be met in order for others to see your display 'name'; and that's all they'll ever see. We don't even mind if your display name isn't your real name and many users opt for a pseudonym or pen-name.
Display names are only ever shown in the comment and chat areas of the KFO website and again, only if you're logged in and your preferences allow it.
For logged-in members, there's an option in your preferences to 'always remain anonymous' (on by default). In addition, you can override this preference using the 'Post anonymously' checkbox when nominating or adding a new nominee.
Signing up for FREE membership on the KFO website allows users to:
Remember, registration is completely free and you can still remain totally anonymous when logged into KFO.
For visitors that would rather not type, quote or introduce the 'F' word, we've set up an alternative front end for KFO at:
http://www.kindlyfoxtrotoscar.com
It's exactly the same website with as many instances of the 'F' word excluded as possible, including the one on the logo.
If you've found yourself a victim on KFO and you're finding it hard to accept, here's a few helpers:
Try and see other people's point of view. If you can't do that, try and see the funny side of it. If you can't do that, read on.
If you're really intent on removing yourself from KFO, send us an email using the link at the foot of your nominee page. In certain situations we may well oblige and remove you from the system. Sometimes, it's simply not down to us but the KFO community as to whether you are deserving of your KFO title or not.
It's a website. Get over it.
Wish for lots of SOS votes and ban family and friends from visiting KFO.
Try practicing evil laughs in front of the mirror. You might discover a whole new you.
Compare yourself to the person above you in the KFO chart and think "Phew, it could be worse".
Compare yourself to the person below you in the KFO chart and think "I'm more famous than them".
It's a website. Get over it.
At least you're not George W. Bush. And if you are, may your God help you.
Only logged-in users can upload images - and only if the nominee doesn't already have an image on their profile page. All user-submitted images are screened before being displayed. Although we obviously won't always be able to verify that the image relates to the nominee, we do attempt to filter out tasteless, pointless and pornographic images. We aim to respond to all requests concerning the change or removal of images - please email us in the first instance.
Images must be jpeg format only and dimensions should ideally be 110px wide and 160px high. The file suffix must be lower-case - e.g. 'my_pic.jpg' and not 'my_pic.JPG' or 'my_pic.JPEG'. If you intend to use images from a digital camera or mobile phone, other than resizing them, you may well have to change the suffix as for some odd reason many of these devices churn out files with upper-case suffixes.
The originating IP address of all images uploaded to KFO are logged along with time and date. If you take the opportunity of uploading an image, please check who owns the copyright first - we will not be held responsible for copyright infringement and if required to do so, we will pass on your details to the copyright owner or those acting on behalf of the copyright owner.
Copyright law applies to all content submitted by users, registered or otherwise, that we choose to publish (display publicly) on the KFO website. IP addresses are logged throughout the entire KFO system and can be matched to user activity. We're not trying to overtly police the website, we simply don't want to break the law and we expect our users to follow certain guidelines.
Whenever you add a new nominee, you must ensure that the profile text that you submit is entirely your own work. If it's not, please state the original source of the information you've used.
If you're copying and pasting snippets of content from Wikipedia for your profile text, we've already provided an automatic citing system which allows you to add the necessary copyright notice and link back to the original article.
See here for an example profile (The Daily Mail) using Wikipedia content with the correct copyright notice in place.
To use the KFO chat window (which is a very basic shoutbox system) , you must be registered logged in.
Once logged in, you'll see a 'Members Only' panel in the right hand column of KFO. Within this panel you'll see a link that says 'Chat' - click on it and you can talk in real-time to other logged-in KFO members.
If you're having problems viewing or accessing certain areas of the website, please check that your browser supports javascript and it is enabled. The KFO website relies heavily on the use of this technology and will not function without it. For more information, click on the 'Website Requirements' link at the foot of the page.
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